[CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

Thu May 17 16:04:30 UTC 2012
Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>

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On 05/17/2012 12:01 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh writes:
>> On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> Greetings-
>>>> 
>>>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
>>>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
>>>> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
>>>> or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>>> 
>>> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
>>> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
>>> 
>>> --Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing
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>> How much memory did you give to the VM?  selinux-policy rpm within a
>> update takes a lot of memory.
> 
> Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than 
> 512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's 
> the minimum needed for installation.
> 
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Yes installing with less then 512 would be a problem.  It might be a little
better in RHEL7.
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